Excerpt: "Pete Buttigieg worked nearly three years for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and he has presented that experience as a kind of capitalist credential - distinguishing him from some rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, and inoculating him against Republican attacks."
Pete Buttigieg during an interview in the media center after the Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta last month. (photo: Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times)
Buttigieg's Untenable Vow of Silence
07 December 19
He needs to give voters more information about his work for the consulting firm McKinsey.
ete Buttigieg worked nearly three years for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and he has presented that experience as a kind of capitalist credential — distinguishing him from some rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, and inoculating him against Republican attacks.
“They’ll try the socialist thing,” Mr. Buttigieg told an Iowa audience in September, referring to a likely line of attack by President Trump and his allies against whichever Democrat emerges as his opponent in next year’s election, “but the thing is, I got started in the private sector.”
The thing is, Mr. Buttigieg has said precious little about his time at McKinsey. He has not named the clients for whom he worked, nor said much about what he did. He says his lips are sealed by a nondisclosure agreement he signed when he left the firm in 2010 and that he has asked the company to release him from the agreement. It has not yet agreed to do so.
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